[Texas_Dawg]

The plant managers appear to routinely get away with underpaying and ignoring the minimum wage laws of China. This 27 cent and 25 cent per hour figure appears to be the defacto base wage that their market has floated to. And then locked in with more rural hicks keeping the pressure on. And if that weren't enough, the PRC banishment of all collective bargaining.

So do you support the US making it easier for more American firms to open factories in China, since the American firms provide much safer environments and much higher pay for Chinese that would otherwise be working in these terrible situations?

[Paul Ross]

...since the American firms provide much safer environments and much higher pay for Chinese that would otherwise be working in these terrible situations?

Let's see some proofs for that presumptuous assertion (particularly where the article above shows that the worker getting the substandard wage is working for the U.S. comapny).

Clearly there is no such thing. The Chinese 'partners' control the employee conditions. End of story. Moral: No betterment for the workers due to U.S. 'control' which is in fact non-existent.

[ninenot]

Oh--you're back home for Christmas---

Please advise WHICH American firms provide "safety" and "better" conditions for Chinese workers.

While you're at it, also advise WHICH US firms provide EPA-standard waste technology, overtime, and retirement in China.

Shouldn't take real long for you to type out the list.

[maui_hawaii]

More than 75% of all imports from China are not owned, operated, or managed at all by anyone American. American companies provide nothing because 75% of American companies that buy from China don't manufacture in China at all.

They contract out to Chinese owned, operated, and managed companies. Its an order it and forget about it system.

Hence the term "outsourcing".